Farley F H, Mueller C B
J Sex Marital Ther. 1978 Spring;4(1):50-3. doi: 10.1080/00926237808403004.
The significant assortative mating for the sensation-seeking motive in (married) American students reported by Farley and Davis was significantly cross validated on American (N = 160) and German (N = 160) samples randomly selected from two comparable cities in the Federal German Republic and the United States. A control condition of age-matched unmarried pairs was included. Spouses were found to have 19% and 29% of sensation-seeking variance in common in the American and German samples, respectively. The later figure is exceptionally high for the literature on assortative mating (exceeding or approximating some of the relationships found for intellectual measures). No significant variance was in common for the unmarried pairs. When a simple and easily measured construct with such wide implications as the sensation-seeking motive can be shown to be so significantly involved in marital partner similarity, then its consequences for successful and unsuccessful marriage should be pursued with vigor. Such a program in research and therapy is recommended and a theoretical model suggested.
法利和戴维斯报告称，美国（已婚）学生在寻求刺激动机方面存在显著的选型交配现象。这一现象在美国（N = 160）和德国（N = 160）样本中得到了显著的交叉验证，这些样本是从德意志联邦共和国和美国两个可比城市中随机抽取的。其中包括年龄匹配的未婚夫妇作为对照条件。结果发现，在美国和德国样本中，配偶在寻求刺激方面的方差分别有19%和29%是相同的。对于选型交配的文献来说，后一个数字异常之高（超过或接近一些在智力测量中发现的关系）。未婚夫妇之间没有显著的共同方差。当一个具有如此广泛影响且易于测量的简单结构——寻求刺激动机，被证明在婚姻伴侣相似性中如此显著地起作用时，那么就应该积极探讨其对成功和不成功婚姻的影响。建议开展这样一个研究和治疗项目，并提出一个理论模型。
